As the ice melts in the Hindu Kush mountains this year, all parties know that the informal truce forced by winter is being lifted and the intense fights of 2006 will soon start again. A key Taliban commander recently bragged on the preparedness of his troops to die by announcing that the "attack is imminent." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice countered, "If there is to be a 'spring offensive,' it must be our offensive."

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